| Description Of Item | He describes having seen the progress of the plague amongst Russian troops fighting the Turks, the citizens of Bucharest and in Moscow where he worked in three hospitals caring for plague victims. He has written four papers on the subject which he offers to the Royal College. The first was a letter on tests of cold rubs for the cure of the plague and other putrid maladies (published Paris, 1781) to serve as a prospectus for his memoir on the plague of Moscow [Russian Empire] titled 'The Anti-Pestiletial of Catherine II'. The second is a memoir on inoculation against the plague with a description of three powders for anti-pestilential fumigation invented by the Moscow Committee of Prevention and used by him (published in Strasbourg, 1782). The third is a letter addressed to the Academy of Dijon [France] in reply to those who doubted his memoir on inoculation against the plague. The fourth is a reply for M. Gourmand of the College of Medicine at Nancy to his question on whether cauteries were a preventative against the plague. He has also written a fifth paper on obstetrics, a tract on the section of the pubic synthesis. He offers to send these publications to Cullen and asks to be elected a member of the Royal College so he can use the title in his publications. Included is a copy of the letter in a different hand which gives more information than the original letter, for example that he hopes to spend the winter at the University in Edinburgh, [Scotland] and about his own qualifications. (Samoilowitz was a Ukrainian epidemiologist). |